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editor’s introduction. iii
velvet; the windowes and balconies all set with ladies ; trumpets,
music, and myriads of people flocking, even so far as from
Rochester, so as they were seven houres in passing’ the citty, even
from 2 in the afternoone till 9 at night.
“ I stood in the Strand and beheld it, and bless’d God. And
all this was don without one drop of blond shed, and by that very
army which rebell’d against him • but it was the Lord’s doing, for
such a restauration was never mention’d in any history, ancient or
modern, since the returne of the Jewes from the Babylonish cap-
tivity j nor so joyfull a day and so bright ever seene in this nation,
this hapning when to expect or effect it was past all human
policy.”*
The night of this day, which drew forth so abundantly the pious
thanksgivings of John Evelyn, the King passed in the company
of Mrs. Palmer, so soon afterwards notorious as the Duchess of
Cleveland; and immediately after, he issued a proclamation against
debauchery. Pepys observes on the 4th of June, iC This morning-
the King’s proclamation against drinking, swearing’, and debauch-
ery, was read to our ships’ companies in the fleet, and indeed it
gives great satisfaction to all.”
The members of Charles’s first administration were partly his
staunch friends, who had followed him in his misfortunes, as
Ormond, Hyde, (created soon after Earl of Clarendon,) and partly
some of his new friends, who had at least the reputation of having
been chiefly instrumental in his restoration, such as Monk, whom
he created Duke of Albemarle, and Montague, created Earl of
Sandwich. They were generally men who possessed, in comparison
with his other favourites, and of those who succeeded them, a con-
siderable degree of integrity or ability. Pepys gives us a curious
insight into the temporizing policy of Sandwich (f his lord,” as he
styles him,) during the negotiations for the King’s return, and
* Evelyn’s Diary, vol. ii. p. 148.
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velvet; the windowes and balconies all set with ladies ; trumpets,
music, and myriads of people flocking, even so far as from
Rochester, so as they were seven houres in passing’ the citty, even
from 2 in the afternoone till 9 at night.
“ I stood in the Strand and beheld it, and bless’d God. And
all this was don without one drop of blond shed, and by that very
army which rebell’d against him • but it was the Lord’s doing, for
such a restauration was never mention’d in any history, ancient or
modern, since the returne of the Jewes from the Babylonish cap-
tivity j nor so joyfull a day and so bright ever seene in this nation,
this hapning when to expect or effect it was past all human
policy.”*
The night of this day, which drew forth so abundantly the pious
thanksgivings of John Evelyn, the King passed in the company
of Mrs. Palmer, so soon afterwards notorious as the Duchess of
Cleveland; and immediately after, he issued a proclamation against
debauchery. Pepys observes on the 4th of June, iC This morning-
the King’s proclamation against drinking, swearing’, and debauch-
ery, was read to our ships’ companies in the fleet, and indeed it
gives great satisfaction to all.”
The members of Charles’s first administration were partly his
staunch friends, who had followed him in his misfortunes, as
Ormond, Hyde, (created soon after Earl of Clarendon,) and partly
some of his new friends, who had at least the reputation of having
been chiefly instrumental in his restoration, such as Monk, whom
he created Duke of Albemarle, and Montague, created Earl of
Sandwich. They were generally men who possessed, in comparison
with his other favourites, and of those who succeeded them, a con-
siderable degree of integrity or ability. Pepys gives us a curious
insight into the temporizing policy of Sandwich (f his lord,” as he
styles him,) during the negotiations for the King’s return, and
* Evelyn’s Diary, vol. ii. p. 148.
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